The Sea-coast: (1) Destruction, (2) Littoral Drift, (3) ProtectionLongmans, Green, 1903 - 361 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 93
Página 1
... chalk cliffs at the east end of the English Channel ; and owing to the necessity of preserving the frontage of the seaside resorts , which abound here more than in any other part of England , the protective works have necessarily been ...
... chalk cliffs at the east end of the English Channel ; and owing to the necessity of preserving the frontage of the seaside resorts , which abound here more than in any other part of England , the protective works have necessarily been ...
Página 24
... chalk , leaving the steep cliffs which exist on both sides . M. Lamblardie , 1 in his treatise on the coasts of Normandy , estimated that about seven per cent . of the eroded cliffs consisted of flints , producing five billion cubic ...
... chalk , leaving the steep cliffs which exist on both sides . M. Lamblardie , 1 in his treatise on the coasts of Normandy , estimated that about seven per cent . of the eroded cliffs consisted of flints , producing five billion cubic ...
Página 26
... chalk ; they are most of them rounded , but scarcely any have the flat oval shape that is common to pebbles on most shingle banks . Many are quite angular , and are still coated with the white colour of the chalk from which they are ...
... chalk ; they are most of them rounded , but scarcely any have the flat oval shape that is common to pebbles on most shingle banks . Many are quite angular , and are still coated with the white colour of the chalk from which they are ...
Página 27
... chalk cliffs from 500 to 600 feet in height when the sea broke through the Solent passage , would lead to the deposit of a large quantity of flint and gravels , of which the accumulations at Hurst Castle and Selsea may probably be the ...
... chalk cliffs from 500 to 600 feet in height when the sea broke through the Solent passage , would lead to the deposit of a large quantity of flint and gravels , of which the accumulations at Hurst Castle and Selsea may probably be the ...
Página 28
... chalk containing large flints is exposed for some distance from the shore , and where flints are cast up on the beach ; in a lesser degree this is also the case on the Sussex coast near Lancing , where the chalk with flints is exposed ...
... chalk containing large flints is exposed for some distance from the shore , and where flints are cast up on the beach ; in a lesser degree this is also the case on the Sussex coast near Lancing , where the chalk with flints is exposed ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Sea-coast: 1. Destruction, 2. Littoral Drift, 3. Protection William Henry Wheeler Vista completa - 1902 |
Términos y frases comunes
12 feet 20 feet alluvium angle bank of shingle basalt beach in front beach material Blackpool boulder clay boulders Bridlington carried chalk chalk cliffs channel chert Clacton clay cliffs consist coast coast-line composed concrete considerable constructed covered with sand denudation deposited depth derived direction distance dunes entrance erected erosion estuary extends face fathoms feet high Felixstowe flints flood tide foot formed gravel groynes half a mile harbour headland heavy gales height high groynes high tides high water Humber inches in diameter inland jetty Kilnsea land length limestone littoral drift London Clay low groynes low water marshes mile wide on-shore gales pebbles pier piles placed planking promenade protection quantity quartzite rise river rocks sand and shingle sand-hills sandstone sandy sea-wall seaward shingle and sand shingle-bank shore slope spring tides Spurn Point stones surface tidal timber varying wall washed width wind Withernsea yards long yards wide